HybridTypically, 60% of the working week is in the office or with clients.
ConsultingFinancial & Transaction Advisory
About the job
Requirements
The role requires working to deadlines, prioritising workload, and providing a high level of service.
Demonstrate curiosity in solving client problems and responding to challenges.
Show commitment to addressing energy and climate challenges.
Understand financial drivers for projects and communicate their impacts to clients.
Use initiative and make decisions at pace.
Apply exceptional attention to detail when translating information into an Excel model.
Communicate complex information clearly and concisely, verbally and in writing.
Exhibit role-model behaviour aligned with Amberside Advisors values.
Use Microsoft Office products, including Word, Excel, Outlook, and PowerPoint, at an expert level.
Work and communicate effectively as part of a team.
Cope with pressure from competing priorities and interruptions.
Apply research skills to solve new issues and make improvements.
Have experience working in a consulting role in financial services.
Have experience leading delivery of large-scale financial projects, including designing and implementing financial operating models.
Have experience in financial modelling, budgeting, business planning, forecasting, and analysis.
Have experience working effectively as a team player and taking on a leadership role.
Hold an accounting qualification such as ACA, ACMA, or ACCA, or similar.
Responsibilities
Lead multiple projects or programmes through managing a team and drawing on cross-divisional specialists.
Execute projects to Amberside Advisors' quality standards and review completed projects to identify lessons and improve future quality and planning.
Build and cultivate business relationships, identify new opportunities, lead negotiations, and provide technical and operational leadership to deliver client-centric solutions.
Maintain professional status or accreditation through continuing professional development, and develop a client and professional-network portfolio through strategic relationships with senior stakeholders.
Seek, develop, and drive business-development opportunities, anticipating company needs based on client and industry research.
Manage the scope, preparation, delivery, reporting, and evaluation of larger, higher-risk projects and engagements.
Manage commercial and contractual aspects of engagements to meet quality and profitability expectations and agreed deadlines.
Communicate risks and issues promptly to appropriate colleagues and suggest solutions.
Monitor market trends, competitor activity, and products or services, and share relevant market and client knowledge with senior management.
Work with peers as part of the senior management team and participate in decisions such as resource allocation.
Ensure employee wellbeing is actively managed or escalate concerns when needed.
Review junior team members' work, identify development needs, and provide advanced knowledge, coaching, mentoring, and stretch assignments to attract, develop, and retain talent.
Meet deadlines throughout the Performance Development Cycle, including conducting appraisals, setting objectives, and managing underperformance when necessary.
Ensure the team accurately records time against engagement codes to reflect work value and recognise individual and team effort.
Support onboarding of new joiners.
Desired Qualifications
A first-level university degree at 2:1 or equivalent, or above, is desirable but not compulsory.
Steer is a global consultancy specialising in the critical services and infrastructure that make our world work. We employee over 500 people throughout, North America, LATAM, UK / Europe and India.
From transport to energy and technology to education, we’re trusted to deliver powerful solutions that make a measurable difference – to our clients, the communities we work in and the world we share. We work for Government departments, local and city authorities, developers, and private sector operators and investors. We develop strategies, policies, and masterplans; design and make the case for new transport infrastructure and services; and provide financial and advisory services. For further information, and examples of our recent projects, please visit https://steergroup.com/.
Following Amberside Advisors’ recent partnership with Steer and to support our future growth plans, we are looking to strengthen our team with the appointment of an experienced Manager.
About the role
As a Manager, you will become an advocate of the firm who pushes forward internal (such as maintaining marketing data) and external initiatives. The role will involve building and maintaining strong business relationships with clients, executing projects to a high standard, as well as working with and managing other colleagues.
Specific responsibilities include but are not limited to:
Start to take the lead on multiple projects or programmes through the management of a team with the contribution of cross divisional specialists
Rigorously executing projects to a level that meet the high-quality standards of Amberside Advisors and holding a review on completion of projects to identify lessons learned and enhance future quality and planning
Building and cultivating strong business relationships, identifying new opportunities, leading negotiations, and showing technical and operational leadership to deliver quality, client-centric solutions
Working on CPD to sustain professional status/ accreditation and developing and maintaining a portfolio of clients and professional networks by building and maintaining strategic relationships with senior stakeholders of existing or new clients
Seeking, developing, and driving business development opportunity, whilst anticipating current and future needs of the company based on research needs of the client/ industry
Managing the scope, preparation, delivery, reporting and evaluation for larger and higher risk projects and engagements
Effectively managing commercial and contractual aspects of an engagement to achieve expected levels of quality, profitability, and to agreed deadlines
Communicating risk and issues early to appropriate colleagues, suggesting solutions
Maintaining an awareness of market trends, competitor activity and products/ services, passing on pertinent market/client knowledge to senior management
Working with peers to form a cohesive senior management team and participating in team decisions such as resource allocation
Taking action to ensure employee wellbeing is being actively managed or escalated if needs be
Reviewing junior team’s works to ensure the work provided for senior review is the highest quality; identifying any development needs of the team and providing advanced knowledge, coaching, mentoring and stretch assignments to attract, develop and retain talent
Meeting deadlines throughout the Amberside Advisors Performance Development Cycle, including appraisals, setting objectives, and managing underperformance where necessary
Ensuring team are accurately charged time to engagement codes to see true value of work delivered and to recognise individual and team effort
Help to support the onboarding of new joiners
Requirements
About the candidate
You must be self-motivated, team player and with a passion for working on large projects that make a difference to our world. The role requires working to deadlines, prioritising workload, and always providing a high level of service.
Values and skills we look for in an Amberside employee:
Driving curiosity to solve client problems and respond to a challenge
Belief that solving the world’s energy and climate challenges is something to which we should all respond
Passion for understanding the financial drivers for each project, combined with the intellectual and communication skills to help clients understand the impact of those drivers
Confidence in using you own initiative and making decisions at pace
Exceptional attention to detail and an ability to translate this to an Excel model
Practiced at communicating complex information in a clear and concise manner – verbally or in written form
Exhibits role model behaviour in line with Amberside Advisors values
Expert user of Microsoft Office products, including Word, Excel, Outlook & PowerPoint
The ability to work and communicate as part of a team, and in an effective manner
Skilled at coping well when under pressure from competing priorities and interruptions
Able to apply research skills to solve new issues and make improvements
Professional Experience:
Typical experience may include, whilst not limited to:
Experience of working in a consulting role in financial services
Experience in leading delivery of large-scale financial projects, including the designing and implementing of financial operating models
Financial modelling, budgeting, business planning, forecasting and analysis experience
Experience working as an effective team player and taking on a leadership role
Qualifications:
A first level university degree, 2:1 (or equivalent) or above is desirable but not compulsory
An accounting qualification (ACA, ACMA, ACCA) or similar
Benefits
About us
Amberside Advisors specialise in providing project finance consultancy and advisory services to public and private sector organisations. Amberside Advisors combines market-leading financial modelling capability with experienced project finance expertise, and our services include advisory, refinancing, due diligence, model development, model audit and training. We have worked on more than 2,500 projects to date across a wide range of sectors and global locations, and our clients are well-known companies with billions of pounds of investments.
Part of the Steer Group since July 2022, we serve a global client base through 24 offices across four continents and take great pride in providing high quality advisory, customer service and insight into our clients’ projects. Our core industry sectors are low carbon, transport, decentralised energy, large scale energy and infrastructure, and we regularly advise on major projects ranging across heat networks, wind, solar and biomass, road and rail, schools, and hospitals, as well as public service delivery contracts.
We offer:
Competitive starting salary along with discretionary company bonus based on combined company and personal performance
25 days holiday (plus bank holidays) common across all employees with the ability to buy and sell up to 10 days leave; plus up to 5 optional volunteering days (2 paid)
Pension (7.5% employer contribution post probation), life assurance (4* Salary), and Group Income Protection (salary protection) and employee assistance programme
Other optional including season ticket loan, cycle to work, Gym discount, eye care, language lessons
Relevant Learning and Development opportunities
Steer’s employee ownership structure provides share voting rights, and ability to invest in shares through salary sacrifice
Weekly lunch in-person paid for by the company
Team building and sports and social club events and activities
Flexible working hours and work-life balance
London and Hemel Hempstead based offices
Amberside Advisors are an equal opportunities employer. We are committed to eliminating discrimination and encouraging diversity across our employees.
We support hybrid working, typically we expect our people to be either in the office or with clients 60% of their working week.